Toy machine gun



2 Sheets-Sheet 1 W. H. TANDET TOY MACHINE GUN Feb. 4, 1958 Filed Ma y 4, 1953 INVENTOR WILLIAM H. TANDET ATTORNEY E v m E. 8

Feb. 4, 1958 w. H. TANDEIT 2,321,803

TOY MACHINE GUN Filed May 4, 1953 I 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 FIG. 3

INVENTOR WILLIAM H. TANDET BY aflg fl, 8W

ATTORNEY United. States Patent TOY MACHINE GUN H. Tandet, Stamford, Conn. Application Ma 4, 1953, Serial No. 352,856

' 6 Claims. or. 42-57 1' This invention relates to a toy machine gun and more particularly to a machine gun of the type employing a rotor and crank assembly for activating the firing mechanism' of the gun.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a toy machine gun which may be used with detonating caps, yet .produces aloud report with the same structure and without the use of caps.

.A further object is to provide a toy machine gun which may be easily and quickly converted to a sub-machine gun. 1 t Another object of the present invention is the provision of a toy machine gun having a novel feed and firing mechanism which will feed and detonate a series of caps in rapid succession.

Another object of the present invention is to provide an easilyaccessible magazine and a relatively safe enclosed firing chamber.

Afurther object of the present invention is to provide a toy machine gun which has relatively few parts and is inexpensive to manufacture yet is effective for the purposes intended. v

f These and other features, objects and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from the following description considered in connection with the accompanying illustrative drawings in which Fig. 1 is 'atop planview partly in section and partly broken away-"of the toy machine gun embodying my invention,

Fig. 2 is asectional view taken along the lines 2--2 of 'Fig. '1, A

Fig. 3 is aside elevational view showing the complete unit," W Fig. 4fi's a front' elevational view thereof, and "Fig. S-i s a perspective view of the multi-purpose element and theclapper therein.

Referring moreparticularly to the drawings and espefcially to 'Fig. 3the toymachine gun embodying the "present invention comprises a breech portion referred to 'geiierally'by the numeraljlfl and located anteriorly thereof is an air-cooled barrel 12 surrounded by a perforated 'tube'or cylinder 14. Barrel 12 is preferably secured by "means of "rivets 13 to breech portion while perforated j tube'14 is fixed to the breech portion 10 through an in- :tegraLkey I G' inkeyWay 18 of breech portion 10. A stock 20 located to, the rear of breech portion 10. It shopldifbe noted that the toe 22 of the stock is rounded vention-is used as a machine gun and in dotted lines when the presentzinvention is employed as a sub-machine gun as clearly illustrated in Fig. 3. As seen in Figs. 3 and 4 th'e front-sight-24 embraces barrel 12 in front of tube 14.

rear sight 25 is'secured'to the breech portion 10 by a 2,821,803 Patented Feb. 4, 1958 "ice retaining strip 27 in a manner hereinafter to be described.

The breech portion 10 further comprises a magazine 28 pivoted at 30 and having a hand grip 32 and a spring clip 34 for yieldably and removably engaging side wall 36 of breechportion 10. A pair of'upstanding, spaced, identical walls 38 confine a roll of paper caps 40 as seen in Fig. 2. Disposed between the'walls 38 and fixed there? to is a multi-purpose element 42 as best seen in Fig. 5 which serves to space the walls 38 and additionally is provided with a slit-like recess 44 which guides'the caps 40 into position for detonation. Fitted into another recess 46 in element 42 is preferably a clapper or hammer 48 having a checkered, recessed firing portion 50 and a hardened, attached strike insert 52. Also disposed between the walls 38 is a circular brake member 54 preferably made of hard rubber and mounted ona-shaft 56 fixed at its ends to the walls 38.

A rotor 58 is secured in a correspondingly-shaped recess in breech portion 10 by means of a washer 60 on one end thereof and a peripheral flare 62 on the other end thereof. Secured to the rotor 58 is a crank 64 and a handle 66. Rotor 58 has two opposed recessed portions (not shown) in which a sear 68 is pressed-fitted therein so that the sear is confined and prevented from lateral movement by the rotor 58 on one side and aside wall of the breech portion 10 on the other side (see Fig. l). Ends 70 and 72 respectively of the sear 68 are adapted to alternately engage strike insert 52 and a lateral projection 74 in the cut-away part 76 of a bifurcated feeder slide 78. Feeder slide 78 is adapted to move rectilinea rly in the direction of its longitudinal axis. As seen in Figs. 1 and 2, the feeder slide 78 may move a limited distance in the breech portion 10 while its depending end 80 is adapted to engage a rubber stop 82 secured in aperture 84 of retaining strip 27 in the extreme left-wise position of the feeder slide. The other end of feeder slide 78 has two integral legs 85 each of which is surrounded by a helical compression spring 86. The free ends of springs 86 abut tube 14. A feeder spring 88 of highly bendable material is secured to feeder slide 78 by any suitable means, for example by means of a rivet 90 in aperture 92 of feeder slide 78. Retaining strip 27 is provided with two offset end portions 94 and 96 which project through apertures 98 and 100 in the top wall'of the breech portion 10 and engage the stock 20 and the inner surface of the top wall of the breech porti0n 10 respectively in order to securely hold the rear sight 25 in its proper position on the device embodying the present invention. 4

Magazine 28 is provided with a helical spring 102 which is fixed at one end to the magazine 28 andat the other end to strike insert 52 and which functions to force firing portion 50 of clapper 48 into striking engagement with caps 40. I

The operation of the toy machine gun embodying the present invention is as follows: The magazine 28 of the gun is pivoted in a clockwise direction to its open position, the pivotal movement being limited by the abutting of a part of the magazine against the stock of the gun. A roll of caps 40 is placed between upstanding walls 38 (one only being shown), and the free end of the caps is inserted through recess 42 which acts as a guide therefor andover brake member 54. The magazine 28 is then closed by pivoting the magazine in the counter clockwise direction and spring clip 34 snapped into frictional engagement with the side of breech portion 10.

When the crank handle 66 of the rotor 58 is turnedin a clockwise direction one of the ends 70 or 72 of the sear 68 engages the, projection 74 on the feeder slide 78 and moves the feeder slide to the right carrying feeder spring 88 therealong until the free end of the feeder spring rides overthe circumference of the brake member and is depressed enough by springaction so as to frictionally engage said caps on the right hand side of the brake member. At that time the end of the sear is out of engagement with the shoulder of the feeder slide and the feeder slide is forced to the left by the action of compression springs 86 taking along the feeder spring which moves a cap into detonating position. Simultaneously, the other end of the sear has disengaged hardened strike insert 52 thereby permitting the clapper 48 to move the firing portion 50 rapidly inan upward direction to strike the cap thereby detonating the same. It will be noted that the -U-shaped portion of the clapper engages the brake member 54 slightly in advance of the detonation of the cap thereby causing the opposite curvilinear surface of the brake member to engage a portion of the cap roll thus preventing movement of the cap to be detonated.

The paper and scraps of the detonated caps fall into the bottom of magazine 28 and may be disposed of when the magazine is pivoted into an open position.

The same operation is repeated every time the sear of the rotor assembly is rotated 180. It should also be noted that the present device may be operated without the use of caps. Action of the clapper against the feeder slide is sufficient to cause a loud staccato report thereby simulating the actual firing of a machine gun.

While I have shown and described the preferred embodiment of my invention, it will be understood that the latter may be embodied otherwise than as herein specifically illustrated or described and that in the illustrated embodiment certain changes in the details of construction and in the arrangement of parts may be made without departing from the underlying idea or principle of the invention Within the scope of the appended claims.

What I claim is:

1. In a toy machine gun of the cap detonating type comprising a breech portion, a magazine pivoting on said breech portion and removably insertable therein, a rotatable sear and a clapper mounted in said breech portion, handle means for rotating said sear, said sear having a part thereof engaging said clapper through a given angle of rotation, guide and brake means in said breech portion for guiding each of said caps into detonating position and holding said cap in said position until detonated, feeder slide means comprising a rigid slide movable in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis of said breech portion and a yieldable feeder spring secured thereto for moving said caps successively into detonating position, and said part of the sear disengaging said clapper after said given angle of rotation has been traversed thereby permitting said clapper to strike said cap with a force sufficient to cause detonation of said cap.

2. In a toy machine gun of the cap detonating type comprising a breech portion, a magazine pivoting on said breech portion and removably insertable therein, a rotatable scar and a clapper mounted in said breech portion, handle means for rotating said sear, said sear having a part thereof engaging said clapper through a given angle of rotation, guide and brake means in said breech portion for guiding each of said caps into detonating position and holding said cap in said position until detonated, feeder means comprising a rigid slide mounted for rectilinear movement in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis of said breech portion, a resilient feeder spring secured to said slide, said resilient feeder spring in a predetermined position frictionally engaging said caps to move them successively into detonating position, and said part of the sear disengaging said clapper after said given angle of rotation has been traversed thereby permitting said clapper to strike said cap with a force sufiiclent tocause detonation of said cap.

3. In atoy machine gun of the cap detonating type comprising a breech portion, a magazine pivoting on 4 said breech portion and removably insertable therein, a rotatable scar and a clapper mounted in said breech portion, handle means for rotating said sear, said sear having a part thereof engaging said clapper through a given angle of rotation, guide and brake means in said breech portion for guiding each of said caps into detonating position and holding said cap in said position until detonated, feeder means comprising a bifurcated slide mounted for rectilinear movement in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis of said breech portion, a pair of compression springs surrounding the legs of .said bifurcated slide, a feeder spring secured to said slide, said feeder spring in a predetermined position frictionally engaging said caps whereby said caps are moved by means of said compression springs successively into detonating position, and said part of the sear disengaging said clapper after said given angle of rotation has been traversed to thereby permit said clapper to strike said cap with a force sufficient to cause detonation of said cap.

4. In a toy machine gun of the cap detonating type comprising a breech portion, a magazine pivoting on said breech portion and removably insertable therein, a rotatable scar and a clapper mounted in said breech portion, handle means for rotating said sear, said sear having a part thereof engaging said clapper through a given angle of rotation, guide and brake means in said breech portion for guiding each of said caps into detonating position and holding said cap in said position until detonate'd, feeder slide means comprising a rigid slide movable in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis of said breech portion and a yieldable feeder spring secured thereto for moving said caps successively into detonating position, said sear having one part thereof which engages said clapper through a given angle of rotation and another part which substantially simultaneously engages said feeder slide means through said given angle of rotation to thereby impart rectilinear movement thereto, and said part of the sear disengaging said clapper after said given angle of rotation has been traversed thereby permitting said clapper to strike said cap with a force sufficient to cause detonation of said cap.

5. In a toy machine gun of the cap detonating type comprising a breech portion, a magazine pivoting on said breech portion and removably insertable therein, a rotatable sear and a clapper mounted in said breech portion, a helical spring urging said clapper into striking engagement With each of said caps, handle means for rotating said sear, said sear having a part thereof engaging said clapper' through a given angle of rotation, a guide member secured to said clapper for guiding each of said caps into detonating position,-- a circular brake member secured in said breech portion for holding'each of said caps in said position until detonated,-feeder slide means comprising a rigid slide movable in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis of said breech portion and a yieldable feeder spring secured thereto for moving said caps successively into detonating position, and said part of the sear disengaging said clapper after said given angle of rotation has been traversed thereby permitting said clapper through spring pressure to strike said cap With a force sufficient to cause detonation of said cap.

6. In a toy machine gun of the cap detonating type comprising a breech portion, a magazine pivotally mounted on said breech portion, resilient clip means on said magazine for removably holding said magazine in the interior of said breech portion, a rotatable sear and a clapper mounted in said breech portion, said clapper being provided with a strike insert on one end thereof,

handle means for rotating said sear, said sear having a part thereof engaging said clapper through a given angle of rotation, guide and brake means in said breech portion for guiding each of said capsinto detonating position and holding said cap in said position until detonated, said guide means being secured to said clapper at the 5 opposite end from said strike insert, feeder slide means References Cited in the file of this patent comprising a rigid slide movab le in a direction parallel UNITED STATES PATENTS to the longltu dmal axis of said breech portion and a yieldable feeder spring secured thereto for moving said 471098 Clark 1892 caps successively into detonating position, and said part 5 1794411 Lalumlere 1931 of the sear disengaging said clapper after said given angle 1'905737 Nelson 1933 of rotation has been traversed thereby permitting said 1980290 Peake 1934 strike insert to strike said cap with a force sufiicient to cause detonation of said cap. 

